Building a football stadium in Belgium is near impossible!
Lost in bureaucracy
Club Brugge, one of the biggest football clubs of Belgium has been trying to build a new state of the art football stadium since 2006 now. 4 different locations have been tried, they all got banned by some kind of form of bureaucracy or legislation. The last option is to build a new stadium on the exact location of the current stadium, but now for 40000 spectators in stead of 28000.
Rendering of the new stadium
So far so good, the plans are ready, but every one has had the time to object to it. Guess what? 125 objections against the stadium have been filed. So, once again we can assume that the chances this stadium will ever get built are very very slim.
That’s Belgium for you... 🤦♂️
Sincerely,
Pele23
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It has to do with the finance side of sports, I thought that was allowed... I will watch out in the future
If you have gone on to talk about financial aspects of the new stadium, costs, how much the club could get from the expanded stadium, etc. It would have been okay, as it is, it's just a post about a new stadium and bureaucratic hurdles against it.
Ok, I get it!
I always thought that Belgian legislation with regards to land use were a joke compared to the strict rules we have in NL. Turns out I was wrong about that...
Looking at the render (as a traffic & transport engineer) I do wonder where they think all those (additional) supporters are going to park their car. If I would be living there, I can imagine I wanted a good solution for the parking nuisance that can be expected once a fortnight.
Wouldn't an underground parking lot work? They might have not shown it in the render.
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That could work. Would be an expensive solution though
Yeah, they could charge for it though, and recoup their investment that way. After recouping their investment, it could bring a little bit of extra cash to the club.
You have to know, there is already a stadium there, for about 28000 spectators, most come with busses, and there are parking lots on other places with free satellite busses to the stadium...
This is how it currently is...
Its quite surprising to know that the country spent 15 years in upgrading the existing stadium. This is really the sad state of the politics and administration. New stadium means International recognition and probably development of economy too.